Mark-up on anything labelled NDIS is a huge issue. Need a new bolt for your four wheeled walker? Couple of dollars at Bunnings. Twenty times as much at Independent Living Specialists

Cutting NDIS funding means many children at specialist schools won’t be adequately supported to remain where they currently are, but they’re not funded for supports to attend mainstream schools either

“Every year, Australia hands $20 billion in tax breaks to property investors – more than it spends on social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined.

These tax breaks have helped fuel wave of property speculation that has pushed home ownership out of reach for my whole generation. ➡️

👆🏼Multiple therapy & Dr appointments .

I am on a carer pension which gets reduced with income earned & only allowed 100hrs a month, so I can’t even work all school hours without being punished (the system keeps you in poverty).

I was in my 2nd year of a law degree when my child was diagnosed, 👇🏼

#auspol #inquiry #gasexporttax #gasindustryimpunity

I can imagine them being genuine but then their economic policy doesn't allow them to do more. I dispute the validity of their economic approach.

#auspol #EarthDay #UQ #FossilFuelSponsors

how can we verify this please?

On board a fishing boat off the West coast of Ireland 45 years ago… from my old negatives #35mmfilm #photography #documentary #Ireland

This illustrates the need for broad and comprehensive reforms with money in politics. We need an international “No Dictators Day” before he steps up his attack on the nation he was supposed to govern, not humiliate. 😱🤬

This man is our nation’s enemy. He must be impeached. The world is watching.. 🤺🇺🇸

Sydney demands that homeless people shower every day, sleep where they are nit seen, feed the birds with leftover crumbs, and not bring down the vide by dying in the street from neglect. #auspol

Good, but govt whines this will cost extra: ignores the bleedingly obvious fact that helping people w showering & continence reduces infections & illnesses that would cost far more long term in medical & hospital care! Deliberate spin or stupidly short-sighted & can't do math? #Auspol #AgedCare 🤨

It was good initially in pushing production I believe?, but correct , but the price in increased poverty and inequality and its ideological associatiation with fossil fuels should be informing people now

‘Stop sucking up to America’: Japan’s youth rises up to protect pacifist constitution Protests are growing against moves to change Japan’s ‘supreme law’, a document written by the US that is now being challenged by Iran war

"Stop sucking up to America" is also sound advice for the Albanese government. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

"Stephen Heydt’s reference to 'the six-word phrase which I can’t say' epitomises the extraordinary damage that is being inflicted on the public sphere by a political class as it seeks to buttress support for Israel." #qldpol #auspol

thank you Valenti

Better NDIS? Free Uni and TAFE?
Seems worth running the gauntlet of lobbyists, donors and spin doctors, don't you reckon?
#GasExportTax #auspol

Ah, fair call

read that as 'The universe is far bigger and stronger ... and I had this sense of, being saved. And then remembered the short term inevitable on this planet for the children of today in their future. Back to reality But not taking it lying down

what are the key arguments against? Not 'it'll drive the investors away', something else? These things are always more complex than they seem

again, unmoderated porn websites should not exist and should be held accountable for hosting rape videos, but that is something different!

"Oh, it's just my algorithms..."
may I use that?

Just saying... I really do not think China will ever forget their 10 future weapons specialists who were plucked from the sky and taken to an US island military base when the USA/Israel took MH370... #auspol #POTUS #China @albomp.bsky.social @senatorwong.bsky.social

The mess' you are mixed up in‼️

if you read the splc indictment & thought “wow that sounds bad,” that just means these feds figured out how to tell a convincing story.

this + prairieland & lawsuits against pro-palestine demos are, in that respect, related.

“they figured out how to obscure legal incompetence” is the story here.

USers think being rude is clever, funny, or strong. They can't be trusted not to elect another trump

Couple of papers to finish, gardening, volunteering at op shop which I love, other vols all ladies of a certain age w prof backgrounds. Next week geological tour of the Kimberleys

Yes, I support decriminalisation but should be 18 years plus like alcohol and tobacco.

Similar here, part time practice and academic 40 plus years, now wriggling into retirement.
What are your plans?

Yes Profs Marmot and Wilkinson have made this irrefutably true. Countries that govern by fact raise their populations out of poverty, fast.
Not being poor also improves cognition in children, so, healthier and smarter citizens

That could be good for everyone else on the planet. The fewer troops they have the less trouble they can cause